Who Benefits From Minimum Wage?
As stated earlier, sixty percent of those earning minimum wage will not benefit because they are either in the waiter or bar profession and are earning tips. Since the other forty percent or so is made up of loosely students and adults, it’s hard to actual picture who is benefiting. Students in school will greatly benefit from an increase in minimum wage. However, some students may benefit too much. In other words, some students may find it more valuable to go to work rather than school. According to George Will, when states allowed students to leave school before eighteen and had a minimum wage increase of ten percent or more, the enrollment rate for schools in that state dropped two percent. Others who may benefit are impoverished mothers like my mom back when she was making minimum wage. However, my mom had assistance from welfare to take care of her kids. According to the testimony of Ed Lazere in 1999 before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, minimum wage made it
